Journal article
Toilet Futures: Sustainability, Scenarios and Climate Change Futures
Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.19(3), pp.1-12
2015
Abstract
This paper seeks to explore the concept "sustainable culture" by exploring the metaphorical possibilities inherent to the toilet. It offers an analysis of the toilet as both a technology and a symbol of (Western/pure) culture via an application of CLA to the problem with (and promise of) shit. Following this the paper offers a set of possible futures scenarios (flushed away; compost; squat; cyber-toilet) for both developing and developed countries and their responses to climate change and more broadly sustainable futures. The paper concludes by exploring the possibilities of a practical spirituality for recoding cultural practices and individual pathways towards what we rather hopefully call sustainable culture.
Details
- Title
- Toilet Futures: Sustainability, Scenarios and Climate Change Futures
- Authors
- Marcus P Bussey (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and Business
- Publication details
- Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.19(3), pp.1-12
- Publisher
- Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
- Date published
- 2015
- ISSN
- 1027-6084
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2015 Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Engage Research Lab; School of Law and Society; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449116102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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